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Re: Installation hangover - a plea !!!



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Hi,

I guess I'm becoming a nuisance with my problem. Forgive me. Yet, is there a single live soul among MS
6.52 users (Equis support staffers including <g>) who has never got rounded prices in Data Window? Like
$10.38 instead of $10.375, or 9.13 for 9.125.

Thanks, Vitaly





Vitaly Larichev wrote:

> Hi everybody,
>
> I am struggling with the Data Window data in MS 6.52. For some(?) reasons, its accuracy (# of
> decimals) varies, and sometimes a price gets rounded off. For instance, for SII on 05/28/92 in MS
> 6.52 it shows
>
> O  10.00
> H  10.50
> L   9.625
> C  10.38
>
> while in MS 5.11 the same looks like
>
> O  10.0000
> H  10.5000
> L   9.6250
> C  10.3750
>
> Fishy in MS 6.52 is rounded off C, let alone visual inconvenience. Don't know where to look for to
> correct it. Has somebody seen anything like this? Sometimes moving to other date range makes it
> change to 3 decimals, but cannot see why, how to hold it. Though, in fractions prices are shown
> right (well ... then there is nothing to round off). Mind that for both MS versions I used the same
> MS data file; so, the problem is not there, in the data file.
>
> It's awfully frustrating to see prices that just don't exist (like $10.38).
>
> Thanks.
>
> Cheers, Vitaly